Transfer-mount for embroidery.



A. STERN.

TRANSFER MOUNT FOR EMBROIDERY.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 18, 1915.

Patented Feb. 8,1916.

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TRANSFER-MOUNT FOR, EMBROIDERY.

Patented Feb. 8,1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'I, ARNOLu-STERN, a

citizen of the United States, and resident of Hollis, in the county of Queens and State of New York, havei'nvented certain new and useful Improvements in TransfeuMounts for Embroidery, ofwhich the following is aspecification. I

This invention relates to embroidery, and particularly to designs in embroidery such as initial letters, monograms andthe like,

. wherein manufactured designs, whether mechine made or hand made, are produced,-for the purpose of being placed, and secured as,

by sew1ng,uponarticles offabric.

My'improvement consists in the provision of. a perishable backing or mount. for embroidery designs, the said mount being composed of textile material, which, prior. to its employment as a mount, has been treated with a chemical solution to renderit destructible at a raised temperaturethat is non-destructive of untreated material.

In carrying out my improvementJI-em,

ploy textile material as a base or founda-' tion upon which is embroidered a letter or other design The base or'foundation mate rial, however, has first been immersed in a chemical bath,.such as a weak solution of sulfuric acid, which has the elfect, when the treated material is subsequently-,subjected to a raised temperature at which the strength or coherence of untreated material is un afiected-the heat being approximately at temperature of 130 F.of causing said treated material to become charred, or in cinerated, and thus capable. of readily from the "embroidery,

In a practical. example of my invention, an initial letter may be embroidered upon a treated square or pieceof fabric, which may be of cotton, forming a mount or base for said letter, by which it may be kept fiat and spread out inits formative lines, thus remaining 1n convenient, shaped cond tion for use, such as to be sewn upon a handkerchief or any other article which is to be thus distinguished or adorned." The base 0r treated mount ust as though the mount were the ultimate article, such as n h'andker mount havin now served its function, is removed by tie process of introducing the article, or that portion thereof bearing said base or mount and embroideredletter, into a zone of the required heat, as in an oven, whereupon the treated base or mount,as

stated, becomes charred or friable, its: texture bring destroyed through the heat accen-.;.

Specification of Letters rel bent.

Application filed June s, 19i5 removing j Serial No. 34,824.

. tuation of the acid property of incineration,'so that with a stiff brush tli whole of maintaining mount which is destructible said base or mount may be sweptawayfrom both the embroidered letter and the article through the agency of a degree of heat that exercises-no deleterious'influence upon the letter or design, nor upon the goods t'o which it has been secured. I

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a plan View of aletter formed by embroidery upon a piece or square of t'reated materialwhich serves as a base or mount for said l'etter.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line'22 .of' Fig.

1. F ig. 3 a plan view showing the letter Wlth its base or-mountsewn upon an article which is thus decorated, and Fig. 4 shows the letter, base or mount and article after subjection to heat whichflhas;renderedthe, base or mount friable by incineratiom inthis view a portion of the char-re d base orfmohnt being shown as having been brushed away.

In said-drawing; theinurner al 1indi"cates' a piece or square of fabric, which may be a suitable textile materiah'and which has'been dipped in aweak solution of sulfuric acid,

tion may vary within certain limits, I'have founzdatllatafive. (5) per cent. solution gives normal temperatures, because, for the pur fand ,dried. While the strength of said soluposes of. my invention, the material must maintain its strength for indefinite periods.

Upon the piece of fabric 1,-which may be square, as seen, or of other desirable contour, a letter or other design 2 is produced by embroidery, either by'machine or hand work. For the particular purpose"I have in View, that of marketing mounted emboideryinitial letters at a low price, obviously machine work is most desirable.

The embroidery is performed upon, the

chief, or; other article to be permanently adorned with the initial letter; Thus the the mounts upon which .they are produce'd, become individual, integral articles of commerce, the mounts serving theldouble purpose of supporting and displaying the letters or designs While exposed for sale, and

having the further function of enabling the letters or designs to be readily and accuthe mount, an initial letter, which unmounted is difiicult to arrange in symmetrical form on an article, as 3, upon which it isto be sewn, is conveniently held toits true form, and thus the labor of adjusting its lines, preparatory to sewing in place, is entirely avoided. I

.lVhen the article, as 3, has had sewn thereto the letter 2 with its mount 1, the united members are subjected to the in .fluence of heat, as in an oven, the temperature not being required to exceed 180 F. and therefore having no injurious efiect upon the embroidery, nor upon the article to which sewn. -But the treated mount 2 at this temperature, or thereabout, becomes charred or incinerated, due to the accentuation by heat of the acid potency, whereby said mount is easily disintegrated, and may be easily removed as l'iy'brushing with a stiff brush, leaving the embroidered initial letter or design in supported relation with its.

permanent mount, as an act of transference from a disappear-mg mount.

, Another method of employing my improved treated mount may be by subjecting rthe city, county, and State of New York it to heat at the moderately raised tempera-' ture indicated, when embroidered with a letter or other-design, to render the mount material easily dlsintegrable; although said mount material, as charred or incineratedunder the augmentation by heat of the acid action aforesaid, and therefore rendered friable, maintains sufiicient substance to answer the purposes of retaining the symmetrical form of the embroidered letter or other design during the processes of sale thatv it can be readily removed from the embroidery after serving its stated purpose,

this acid and heattreatment providing a mountwhich answers admirably all the functions of a temporary vehilcle whereby the embroidery can be handled in commerce and conveniently and properly applied bythe user.

I claim:

A new article of manufacture, comprising an acid and heat treated temporary mount of textile material having a design embroidered thereon, said mount being of such consistency that while it is readily disintegrable, it will serve as a form retaining vehicle for the embroidered design until the latter is secured upon a permanent mount, said temporary mount then being readily separated from the embroidered design and permanent mount.

Signed at the borough of Manhattan in this 10th day of June, A. D. 1915.

' ARNOLD STERN.

Witnesses:

F. W. BARKER, EDWARD DURANT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents,

r Washington, I). O. 

